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Emu Egg
Joined: Mar 29, 2005
Posts: 3
Location: London, England
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What is your first name? Paul
Age: 26
Location: London, England
Hobbies and Interests: seeing live music and comedy
why are you here? strongly suspect I have AS, but had not heard of it until 5 weeks ago
Favorite music: Run DMC, Mos Def, Busta Rhymes, Gangstar, a tribe called Quest, the beastie boys, Wu-Tang Clan, De La Soul, Belle and Sebastian, Camera Obscura, Super Furry Animals, Seafood, Bis, The Wildhearts, A, AC/DC, the Ramones, Nerina Pallot, Thea Gilmore, Sarah Harmer, Rosie Thomas, Kat, Laura Cantrell, Johnny Cash, Neko Case, the be good tanyas
Books: I find reading hard, but any Mick Foley
TV shows/Movies: columbo, miss marple, poirot, seinfeld, the big Lebowski, this is spinal tap, the trouble with harry, used to watch wrestling
Do you like sports? If so, which ones?: I play golf, watch football (soccer) Arsenal
Family: mum, dad, two older sisters 30 and 28
Clothing: dockers pants, fred perry shirts
How did you find this website? via a link on nas.org.uk
Job: Don't have one yet.
Plans for the future? I find it see a future |
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Mar
Hummingbird
Joined: Mar 30, 2005
Posts: 23
Location: Northern VA
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| Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 10:02 pm Post subject: Re: Questions about you |
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Age: 23
Location: Northern VA / DC area.
Hobbies and Interests: Reading, Yoga, Psychology/Neurology/Autism, Cooking, wearing flippers, wandering around places among people who don't speak my language.
Why are you here? I have a 4 year old son who is high-functioning autistic, and I have recently discovered that I, myself, am more than likely an Aspie.
When were you diagnosed? Not yet professionally diagnosed.
Favorite subjects: Psychology/Biology/Healthcare & Behavioral Sciences/Neurology/Autism, Poetry, Eastern Religion, European History.
Favorite music: Eclectic. Some favorites include: Ali Farka Toure, Buddy Guy, Oi Va Voi, Tom Waits, Antony and the Johnsons, Sigur Ros, Morphine, Afghan Whigs, Can, Tomatito.
Books: Hermann Hesse, Borges, Neruda, Lorca, Rumi, Graham Joyce, Audrey Niffenegger, Nabokov, C. S. Lewis.
TV shows: E.R., House (purely for Hugh Laurie), Nip/Tuck.
Movies: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Sex and Lucia, What Dreams May Come, Frida.
Instrument: Backslidden violen and piano player. I doubt I could even remember how to hold a bow, although I can always muddle out the piano again, by sound.
Do you like sports? If so, which ones?: I spent one young summer in tennis camp.
Family: A mother and father and a beautiful little son.
Clothing: Simple, and as comfortable as I can slide by with. I tend to stick to mostly grays, browns, whites and blacks, although I try to add a red item occasionally to keep people from commenting on my lack of color.
How did you find this website? Serendipity.
Job: I buy people. For a tech company. I also happen to hate it and am currently transitioning into the Real Estate field.
Plans for the future? Delicately laid out. I had plans, they included nursing followed by med school. At the moment, as I'm questioning everything, I would like to scrap all that and head to Spain. I'll get a little flat along the Costa Brava and spend my days diving and my nights reading. Yes. That will be the plan. Forget saving the world.
Any comments? I lied. I want to save the world, and then I want to hide in Spain. |
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JayShaw
Hawk (Site Admin)
Joined: Oct 08, 2004
Age: 33
Posts: 229
Location: Alexandria, Virginia (United States)
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| Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 9:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Hi, Mar. I'm currently living in Northern Virginia, as well. |
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Sean
Phoenix
Joined: Apr 04, 2005
Posts: 3503
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Name: Sean
Age: 23
Location: Riverside, CA
Interests: computers (especially games), mountain biking, camping, I plan on doing some trap shooting once I have some money.
Pets: 2 Dogs and 1 Guinea Pig
Why are you here? 99.99999% I have Asperger's and currently seeking a formal diagnosis. I also have CP,TS,ADD,OCD formally diagnosed.
Favorite Music: Linkin Park, early Offspring, Green Day, Led Zeppelin, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Supertones, and Metallica has been growing on me lately.
Favorite Books: 1984, Cosmos, The Hunt for the Red October (or anything else by Tom Clancy)
Favorite TV Shows/Movies: The Simpsons, Star Wars
Instruments: Tuba, Trumpet, Xylophone, Piano
Clothing: T-shirts or polo shirts, jeans or fatigues
How did you find this website? A link from a link from a link from a link from a link from a link...
Any comments? It's nice to know I'm not all alone in this world and that there is order to my eccentricities. The fact that I have even acknowledged my existence over the internet much less disclose details about myself speaks volumes about this site. I am normally very paranoid about my personal information.
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Ghosthunter
Phoenix
Joined: Mar 20, 2005
Posts: 2473
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
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| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 12:45 am Post subject: Retake! Scene 2.... |
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99.99999% I have Asperger's and currently seeking a formal diagnosis. I also have
•CP?
•TS?
•ADD
("attention deficit disorder")
•OCD
("obsessive compulsive disorder")
=formally diagnosed. |
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Sean
Phoenix
Joined: Apr 04, 2005
Posts: 3503
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CP= Cerebral Palsy, I have it very mildly on my right side.
TS= Tourette Syndrome |
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Ghosthunter
Phoenix
Joined: Mar 20, 2005
Posts: 2473
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
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| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 1:06 am Post subject: HFA and a younger age. |
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[Mar
Emu Egg
Joined: Mar 30, 2005
Posts: 4
Location: Northern VA
Why are you here? I have a
4 year old son who is
high-functioning autistic, and
I have recently discovered that
I, myself, am more than likely an Aspie. ]
Just out of curiosity, and that I have
High Functioning Autism, can you tell
me some of his early symptoms.
When one gets older one tends to
forget these earlier years and
things they exhibited.
I had speech delays, behavoral
and ? unknown issues that
put me in Sp:ed specialty schools
before mainstream school and Sp:Ed |
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Ghosthunter
Phoenix
Joined: Mar 20, 2005
Posts: 2473
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
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| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 1:45 am Post subject: Not too familiar with that combination of disorders. |
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[Sean
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 2:54 pm
Post subject:
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CP= Cerebral Palsy, I have it very
mildly on my right side.
TS= Tourette Syndrome]
Can can see ADD, and OCD as
a mix, but thrown in with CP & TS
I have no idea how that affects you
in behavior? I am curious because
of the mixture of disorders.
Sincerely,
Ghosthunter |
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Sean
Phoenix
Joined: Apr 04, 2005
Posts: 3503
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The CP is not related to the other disorders. As for the rest, check out this link http://www.aspergerssyndrome.org/Big%20Picture.htm
and see figure 1. Everything applies to me except seizures and bipolar disorder. |
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Mar
Hummingbird
Joined: Mar 30, 2005
Posts: 23
Location: Northern VA
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| JayShaw wrote: | | Hi, Mar. I'm currently living in Northern Virginia, as well. |
Hi, Jay. I'm living in Chantilly right now, and about to move to Fairfax. (If I survive this Real Estate market bidding insanity.) |
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Mar
Hummingbird
Joined: Mar 30, 2005
Posts: 23
Location: Northern VA
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| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 10:22 am Post subject: Re: HFA and a younger age. |
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| Ghosthunter wrote: |
Just out of curiosity, and that I have
High Functioning Autism, can you tell
me some of his early symptoms.
I had speech delays, behavoral
and ? unknown issues that
put me in Sp:ed specialty schools
before mainstream school and Sp:Ed |
Generally, speech/language delays are connected more with Autism than Aspergers I believe. With my son, at around the age of 1-2 he began "losing" his language, the little that he had by then. He lost his ability to keep any sort of eye contact as well, became very withdrawn, had tantrums when any change was forced upon him and it was only ocassionally that I thought he even noticed that I, or anyone else was alive. He was in his own world. (This of course happened over a period of time, gradual enough for me to try to think it was something he would "grow out of" until it was bad enough that the fact that something was very wrong just could not be ignored.)
He is now almost 5 years old, and has a better grip on language, though echolalia is a big problem. He can make himself understood, though we have difficulty with things like "I" vs. "You," "She/He" vs. "It," and such complexities. He also interacts quite well with others and is a much happier little boy.
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When one gets older one tends to
forget these earlier years and
things they exhibited.
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Very true. I quite recently sat down with my mother and we tried to think back to what I was like at a young age. I'd forgotten all I'd been through and felt, although looking at it now with the information I have, it is glaringly obvious what the problem was.
I'm even struggling with a bit of anger, because no one knew what was wrong at the time. |
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JayShaw
Hawk (Site Admin)
Joined: Oct 08, 2004
Age: 33
Posts: 229
Location: Alexandria, Virginia (United States)
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| Quote: | | Hi, Jay. I'm living in Chantilly right now, and about to move to Fairfax. (If I survive this Real Estate market bidding insanity.) |
Cripes, you can afford a home in Fairfax at age 23? I'm jealous, heh. I'm not going to consider buying in this area until it becomes a reasonable deal relative to renting, personally. That should give me plenty of time to build up a down payment, at any rate. |
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Mar
Hummingbird
Joined: Mar 30, 2005
Posts: 23
Location: Northern VA
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| JayShaw wrote: | | Quote: | | Hi, Jay. I'm living in Chantilly right now, and about to move to Fairfax. (If I survive this Real Estate market bidding insanity.) |
Cripes, you can afford a home in Fairfax at age 23? I'm jealous, heh. I'm not going to consider buying in this area until it becomes a reasonable deal relative to renting, personally. That should give me plenty of time to build up a down payment, at any rate. |
I'm lucky, though perhaps not lucky enough.
The problem right now is that the inventory is extremely low. I found a two bedroom condo over the weekend that I really liked. It had been on the market for two days and already had 9 contracts on it. It's absolutely ridiculous. Even if you can afford to pay over the listed price, have cash ready, and are willing to wave an appraisal, you have to get in line.
Hopefully warm weather will get people moving a little bit. |
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Cadeyrn
Butterfly
Joined: Apr 10, 2005
Posts: 14
Location: Innsmouth, Massachusetts
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First name: Matthew
Age: 21
Location: The Center of the Universe (Massachusetts to non-locals ^_~)
Hobbies and Interests: history, science, internet, reading, writing, river rafting
Why are you here? That's a question I leave to the philosophers.
On this website because it seems like a good idea at the time. Seriously though, I'm also curious. I know I'm wired differently than most people, and I know I fit much of the profile for Asperger's (though I despise how people label anyone different these days as having some kind of disease, hence why I just say I'm wired differently). So really, I just want to see if I can meet more people who are more like me in how they think.
First diagnosed: ADD at age 11.
Favorite subjects: History
Year/Grade: Almost finished with my Associates in History, then going back to college to go for the Bachelors some time next Winter.
Favorite music: the non-sucking kind of music. If it sounds good, I'll like it. It sounding good is entirely subjective to my own god-like (asnine) opinions.
Books: Neuromancer, The Screwtape Letters, Starship Troopers, Armor, The Forever War, Farenheit 451, just about anything by H.P. Lovecraft
TV shows/Movies: TV wise, not a big fan. I like the occassional anime, some of my favorites right now are Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. Not too fond of American programming however.
Except for Invader Zim. ^_^
Movie wise... have a weird fondness for war/military movies. Glory, Das Boot, Band of Brothers, Hunt for Red October, etc.
Instrument: do the spoons count?
Sports: I'm about the antithesis of athletic. In the words of a friend of mine, "Your philosophy has always been no pain, no pain." Sports, on their own, kind of bore me.
Family: Parents (no kidding), couple of younger sisters. Parents are... quirky and kind of eccentric in a good harmless way. The siblings think the rest of us are insane.
Clothing: Yes, I wear clothing. Since, in the words of Mark Twain, "Naked people have little or no influence on society." They usually consist of jeans and a plain t-shirt (if Nike wants me to wear their logo on my chest they're going to have to pay me, damnit).
How did you find this website? Wikipedia had a link in the stuff under Asperger's.
Job: I work at a movie theatre. Strangely, I'm more sane than half the staff.
Plans for the future: Global conquest and rule under my iron fist. Mwahaha.
Really, though, I'm really not sure right now. That bothers me a lot. I like having a goal to strive for, a prize for which I'm bothering devoting my efforts towards in school. I'm dreading the possibility of ending up in a corporate or law office. Probably because I'd be good at it. I want to do something more creative, like game design or something.
Comments: More of a heads up, really. I have a strange sense of humor, as kind of seen here. |
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VGerX
Tufted Titmouse
Joined: Apr 08, 2005
Posts: 44
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What is your first name: James
Age: 15
Location: Puerto Rico
Hobbies and Interests: Star Wars, movies in general, animation, reading, drawing, writing, water, my old action figures, pro wrestling, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Super Mario, Legend of Zelda, Metroid, Half-Life computers, Gunbound, et al
Why are you here: Wants to hang out with other Aspies in a positive enviroment.
When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): Self-diagnosed
Favorite subjects: English
Year/Grade: 11th grade, next fall
Favorite music: 70s/80s rock, mainly Chicago
Books: Ender's Game, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Harry Potter
TV shows: 24... and that's it.
Movies: The Star Wars Saga, All Pixar Films, The Shawshank Redemption, Forrest Gump, Cast Away, The Green Mile, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Indiana Jones Trilogy, The Lion King, T2: Judgment Day, Spider-Man 2, and MANY more.
Video games: Super Mario 64, Super Mario All-Stars, Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Half-Life, Super Smash Bros. Melee, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Sonic the Hedgehog 3, Gunbound, Metroid Prime, Super Metroid, Metroid Fusion(Can't you tell I'm a big Metroid fan?), and MANY others.
Instrument: None.
Do you like sports? If so, which ones?: Not a big sports person.
Family: My parents and sister.
Clothing: I'll wear anything as long as it's comfortable. I don't give a rip about all these stupid artificial trends.
How did you find this website: Aspies For Freedom
Job: Homeschooled student.
Plans for the future: Author.
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